Displaying items by tag: Crime
Friday, 12 December 2008 07:58
Ericsson and Intel to 'œstop' laptop theft - in 2009
Need some protection against the theft of your future 3.5G enabled
laptop computer? Then the fact that Ericsson’s “Mobile Broadband
Modules” now work with Intel’s “Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology”
aims to give you some peace of mind.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 11:32
Watch out crims: AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it is engaging in a new
partnership with Australian telco Telstra to “strengthen its world-leading capability in
countering new technology-enabled crime”.
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Strategy
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 09:49
TrustDefender looks deep into banking trojan's soul
Banking trojans, such as the reviled “SilentBanker” trojan that is
capturing unsuspecting and even anti-virus protected users by surprise
and ripping money out of bank accounts, are digital curses upon not
only users but the financial industry as a whole. Security experts
TrustDefender take it apart in their latest blog entry.
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Home Tech
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Friday, 14 November 2008 01:21
One in four domain name servers wide open to attack
Dan Kaminsky's discovery earlier this year of a new way to attack domain name servers caused near panic in the global Internet community and a rush to implement protection measures. But one in four servers remains vulnerable, according to a survey undertaken by Infoblox.
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Networking
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:50
80 percent of Internet child porn victims under 10 years old
The true horror of Internet child pornography has been revealed by the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK organisation that works with law enforcement agencies to help prevent such abuse. Be warned, this story does not make for happy reading...
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Networking
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:47
Stolen Australian credit cards going cheap
Six months ago you could buy stolen US credit card details from the online underground for the seemingly bargain basement price of USD $10 a pop. However, it appears that stolen Australian credit cards have now hit the real rock bottom and can be picked up for as little as just USD $1.50 a time...
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Home Tech
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Friday, 03 October 2008 20:31
Millions at risk from massive organized eCrime attack
With credentials relating to 200,000 servers, and more than 80,000 legitimate sites known to have been compromised, could this Neosploit driven attack be one of the biggest organized eCrime operations ever?
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Home Tech
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 17:07
Owned: National Hi-Tech Crime Unit website
When the BBC recently reported on the extradition battle of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon, it linked to the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit website. Indeed, many news and security sites around the world do the same. Yet visit NHTCU.org today and you can book a German holiday. What the heck is going on?
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Home Tech
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 18:33
EXCLUSIVE: Best Western Pwned, new facts emerging
When a Scottish newspaper revealed that Best Western had been the victim of what it called the world's biggest cyber heist, the hotel chain fought back with claims that the reports of the breach were grossly unsubstantiated. I've spoken to the reporter who uncovered the breach, and seen the screenshots backing up his claims...
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Home Tech
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:55
One million bank accounts going, going, gone for £35 on eBay
When Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England successfully bid £35 for an old computer on eBay he wasn't expecting to have the details of a million bank accounts thrown in for free...
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Home Tech
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 02:38
Metropolitan Police launch pointless Google powered London crime map mashup
Ever wondered just how bad crime is in your neighbourhood? Londoners can now find out thanks to an interactive crime map which has just been launched by the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London...
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Government Tech Policy
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:10
Chip and Pin protection cracked like a rotten foreign egg
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...
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Home Tech
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 02:51
San Francisco network lockdown: IDs and passwords revealed in court
The trial of Terry Childs, the network administrator who locked down the city of San Francisco's network when threatened with dismissal from his job, has taken another turn, with around 150 usernames and passwords for the San Francisco city government's VPN being exposed to public view. The accounts, associated with the mayor's office, the district attorney's office, the police department and other city agencies, were tendered as an exhibit in the court case.
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Security
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 18:01
Phishing up 180 percent in six months
According to APACS, the UK payments association, the number of people banking online has risen by 505 percent in the last seven years. However, in just the last six months alone the number of reported phishing incidents has risen by 180 percent in the UK.
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Security
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:19
U.S. report: teen pregnancies up, 8th grade smoking down, 9% asthma in children
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the tenth edition of its report "America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2008” on Friday, July 11, 2008. We have both good and bad news to report.
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Health
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 06:30
Oh Lord, make the banks pay for cybercrime
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is urging the Government to introduce legislation to make banks pay for cybercrime coupled with a data security breach disclosure law for the UK.
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Home Tech
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 04:38
Is the mobile phone mightier than the gun in London?
Over the next two days the 2gether08 Festival is being held in London to bring together 300 innovators looking to use digital technology to make a real social difference. Innovators such as the students of South Thames College and its LIFEWISE project which sees London teenagers using mobile phones to tackle gun crime in the capital.
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Mobility
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 04:32
Information threat horizon a major cause for concern
One of the world's leading independent authorities on information security has warned that malicious threats from organised crime as well as industrial espionage are on the up. Throw in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities and the threat horizon looks very grim indeed.
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Home Tech
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Monday, 23 June 2008 19:44
Grand Theft Auto IV players in virtual paedo website sting
Some GTA IV players react badly to getting caught in a virtual paedo website sting operation, while playing the game! Liberty City Police Department respond with a five star wanted level when players try to access a certain website on the in-game web browser.
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Entertainment
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Friday, 20 June 2008 20:47
The most dangerous Euro 2008 football team online
With the Euro 2008 football championships well and truly underway, the Internet is proving to be the perfect place to catch up on scores, fixtures and soccer news. But Euro 2008 has also become a cybercrime hotspot, so we've named and shamed the most dangerous players in cyberspace.
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Home Tech
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